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The imperial firewood measure is a cord. The Brits used the cord before the Yanks.

Likewise. You can tell a lot about a person from the contents of their home. That poor geezer, could have had a few cans with him (outside) and talked about WW2 and baby seals.

Well, I run pump for the season, then when I lay up the gear, empty the talks and run Aspen through the system. So they're sitting with pump in the carbs and pipes for months, then Aspen for months, then pump again. If I need a saw in the off season for a short job, it's fueled and ready to go with the Aspen in the tank. I don't have petrol going off in the machines that way. I know some people just run them dry and store dry, but I worry about evap and varnish buildup that way. Running a bit of Aspen through the works displaces ALL the petrol, by my reckoning. I could then dump out the Aspen and run dry, do the carbs would be both dry and clean. But given that Aspen is like mother's milk, won't melt styrofoam etc, I don't see any harm in leaving it in the machines. Whatever chemically happens to the diaphragms with Aspen sitting in them, would happen anyway if they were dry, probably. Aspen is basically inert. Anyway, that's what I've been doing, for a good few years, and haven't had any issues

Did you really throw a crowbar at the teleporter driver?

I think this is a myth. I've been running my equipment on both now for years, like, five years at least. No issues. I know Stubby will warn about fuel lines, but in my experience it's a myth.

I wasn't aware drug test kits can be bought at a pharmacy... What do the kits test for? Is it a piss test or what? If its true, it changes everything. Buy a handful of kits and request the whole team to take a test. No calling victimisation then.

Scenario: the OP approaches the subbie and asks "What's the story with the baggie of power, mate?" Subbie replies: (couple of possible scenarios) 1. "Don't know what you're talking about, boss? No, I didn't drop a bag. Must have been someone else." Etc. 2. "Oh that? That was just baking soda. Yeah I had an acid stomach that day." What happens next? Let's role play it.

Who knows, time will tell if it works or not I suppose.. don't like the authoritarianism though. But that said, it's a more intelligent way to reduce smoking than blanket prohibition. Raises issues with rights though. You're 34 and want to buy some tobacco. But you've been aged into the system and nobody will sell you tobacco. But your 35 yo friend can buy it...? Who's to say a 34 year old adult isn't allowed to make an informed choice about smoking tobacco? What kind of nanny state dystopia is that? Academic point, since most grown adults who have not been hooked in their teens won't want to experiment with tobacco anyway...but it's still a point. Regarding vaping, there's much misunderstanding about it. The deaths we read about are not from regular nicotine vapes, they're from cannabis vapes. Guys were mixing THC oil with vitamin E oil (don't ask me why) and selling the mixture in pre-loaded vape cartridges behind the bike shed...The vaporized vitamin E oil was causing health problems. regular vape "juice" is nicotine, vegetable glycerin, propalyene glysol and flavor. vaporised vegetable glycerin is what's in the old chunky asthma nebulizers. The glycerin carries the medication. It's basically harmless, converts to water vapour. propalyene glysol is more questionable. They vaporize it in sone hospitals in the ventilation systems, to neutralize viruses. They don't know why it works, but it does, reportedly. In low concentrations, no known harmful effects. But it does dry the mucus membrane if vaped. Some vapers don't like it, and you can get vape juice with lower concentrations of it. The purpose of the PG is to "bind" the flavor chemicals in the juice. The flavorings are an unknown quantity. The talk of "popcorn lung" is hysteria, but there's a grain of truth. The chemical dyacytel (?) gives a buttery flavor and is found in food flavorings and vape juices which emulate buttery stuff, like butterscotch and cheesecake. They flavor bagged shop popcorn with it, and the guys were dumping buckets of the stuff into mixing machines full of popcorn. They got chronic incurable bronchitis from it (popcorn lung). If one vapes pure vegetable glycerin, with or without nicotine, and nothing else...it's basically harmless.

Not all about thermometer temps, it's the humidity as well. Cool damp air does no good for a body or a building, or aught in it.

Missing info, need a link to view the winch. Product page or something. Or at least a photograph of it

The fire ant crisis! 😲

That's a gravy train I could get on board with 👍

Don't tell him about the Weeds Act (1959). Ragwort, Dock & Thistle, and the biggest offenders are the local authorities. And nobody, literally nobody, gives a damn.

If you can be bothered, go the whole hog and install a foot pedal.

Disability allowance. No need for personal insurance, that's what we pay NI for. If you're putting an employee to work the modified machine, have the "conversation" with him/her before starting. If he/she is any good, he/she will refuse to use the machine in factory mode anyway, for the simple reason it's unfeasible and unsafe, as explained above. If he/she is totally clueless and wants to use the machine with the factory safety features, then he/she is not the kind of person you'd trust to safely run machinery in the first place. You make the mod reversible so you can quickly restore it to factory spec in the (extremely unlikely) case they injure themselves. Hence the "conversation", so you both agree on the risks and the story. If someone asked me to use a splitter with default two handed operation I'd tell them no. It's dangerous, unproductive, irresponsible. Give me a machine fit for purpose or split the damn wood yourself.

Yeah, but they made the money back selling Fischer Space Pens to consumers. Capitalism..

I can see another plus for the self retracting lanyard: no hanging lanyard loop to get fouled around the saw, twigs, or other dangling stuff off the harness.

In that particular case, agreed. But given the ubiquity of battery toppers the starting is a non issue now. My lanyard (all lanyards?) came with a ring on the saw end. The tail of the lanyard cinches to the saw, and the ring dangles just above this. You can grasp the ring and lift the saw. Petzl carritool clip on my harness, to stow the saw just snap the ring into the clip. There's a hand changeover involved, to move the right hand from the saw top handle to the ring. If I'm cutting two handed, this isn't a problem as my left hand is already grasping the side handle and all I do is move my right hand to the ring. To unclip, I locate the clip and ring with muscle memory or feel, grab the ring with my right hand and twist. The ring kind of twists itself out of the tool clip, opening and snapping the wire gate. Time in seconds is lost by clipping and unclipping, it's true. But it is comparable to pulling up a hanging saw.

But joking aside, I love the idea. My mind immediately jumped to an old compact self retracting fall arrest device I picked up. I might mess around with it tomorrow.. It's totally doable with all sorts of devices, but the true challenge to overcome is this: The retracting element puts distance between the harness and the saw. Add a carabinier or two, and the saw will hang 6 to 8 inches lower than if high clipped to a tool clip. Top handle saw on tool clip hangs around the upper thigh area. Doesn't impede movement too much. 6 inches lower, it's whacking into your knee area. Or foot area, depending on your positioning. Saw on a hanging lanyard, well I suppose it's not really in the way, as such? It's the middle distance I foresee being a problem.

I'll sell you mine for £200

The stowed saw has to be actually clipped to the harness or it will dislodged by branches and stuff. Imagine climbing up three feet and then being stopped by your saw lanyard - your saw has lodged in a fork, your upward motion has overcome the magnet. Now you have to descend to free the saw. If the saw is high clipped with a true clip, you'd notice immediately the saw got stuck.

We know how to impress the ladies though.. there was a survey a few years back for the top ten "manliest" jobs. Arbs took first place, it was discussed on here at the time.

Ha! Was gonna post that myself but figured it was too fringe... "Balaké!!" Do we have to do this every morning then? Can we just have an arbtalk forum song and promise to sing it hand on heart every morning at 9 without logging in?

Hours of painstaking preparation, five seconds of thrills and the cleanup is a chore?

All in good fun. My wife studied horticulture. Big money possible in the field, as with everything, if you can go far enough and make a name for yourself, like garden design and stuff. Grounds maintenance, yeah, big money there too if you can build a team of guys with a fleet of mowers and land the contracts to keep them busy. Some are making big money at everything, and some are making a crust at the same thing, it's about the individual drive, savvy, and luck.